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SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million::Starlink has a fraction of the projected $12B revenue and 20M users, WSJ says.

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[–] exohuman@programming.dev 17 points 1 year ago (11 children)

They haven’t done a great job of marketing it. $100-120 a month isn’t bad and it beats the pants off of all the other satellite internet services.

[–] SpliceVW@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have they needed to? My mom has no high speed internet to her house. She signed up for Starlink like 2 years ago. Still on the waitlist.

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My coworkers mom signed up for it about 1.5 years ago and got connected about a year ago in rural WA. Are you sure you're still on the list?

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

They dosh them out to more profitable areas first, or areas with more open slots.

[–] SpliceVW@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they were notified they'll have the chance soon. I think it depends on your area. As I understand it, they were being very limited with accepting users as they continue to expand capacity.

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